also sprach Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> [2007.01.08.2239 +0100]: > Sure, there is a RAID superblock that can be used for such things. However > doing so without a partition type is a little more risky. A common practice > on PC hardware is to change the partition type to prevent the system boot > process from automatically activating a RAID set. ... which will only happen if you have md compiled into the kernel. If you use modules, the kernel never starts arrays unless mdadm tells it to. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems NP: OSI / Free
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